I have been one of the most positive and optimistic posters on here, even as late as yesterday evening when I was hopeful that as soon as the Jelavic deal was confirmed you'd have 3 contract offers fired off to Jaager, Sandaza, and Rapid striker Salihi and emerge from the transfer window with a slightly stronger first eleven. So I'm stunned, surprised and saddened by the news that we have lost so many players and brought in only one, and not the strikers we so badly need
I have tried to dismiss the barrage of negative press reports, the unfavourable tv coverage, the pessimistic analysis from former board members, the tax/financial revelations but this morning I'm left with the impression that we have been lied to by you, our chairman, - probably from the word go, and even as late as yesterday's statement which included the following:
" I have supported Ally McCoist in his choice of targets and will continue to do so. The timing of Jelavic's departure so late in this window is far from ideal and efforts to improve the squad will continue until the transfer window closes."....BOLLOX!...the Jaager guy who Ally wanted was only asking for around £5k per week, and you've just saved 7 wages from those released
Mr Whyte, you are beginning to sound like a politician. I hear you confidently spouting the party line but I just don't believe you any more! You have greatly weakened our club's ability to retain the title and you risk driving away our manager. I genuinely don't know what your intentions are for our club but I'm am fearful for the future. You have called press conferences, and issued statements, and you have sounded confident, dismissive of the criticism, on top of your game, but it seems that each statement you make raises as many questions as you've answered and is followed by yet another barrage of counter-arguments in the media, and more negative revelations
As fans we must remain supportive of the manager and of the team on the park and that is exactly how we will conduct ourselves. However I fear that over the past couple of weeks, even days, you personally may have lost the trust and support of the majority
Open letter to Mr Whyte
posted on 1/2/12
who all left
Weir
Jelly
Cole loan
Hutton loan
Ortiz loan
McMillan away
Adam loan
Fleck loan
Their is more than that?
posted on 1/2/12
Wotsit
"Anybody kidding themselves that we would do anything but try and make some cutbacks in personell and expenses in this window can be nothing short of naive"
I agree with you to a certain extent but Whyte has led us on in the matter of improving the squad right from the start.
Firstly with his claim of "£5m per year to improve the squad". Every fan, and incoming manager, knows that when this matter is talked about it means £5m gross in transfer fees, plus whatever transfer fees are achieved through sales. It does not include improved wages for those players already at the club, nor does it include the wages of the new incoming players...WE WERE MISLED
Only yesterday in his statement he said "efforts to improve the squad will continue until the transfer window closes."...blatant lies so again WE WERE MISLED
In my book believing everything you read in the Record is naivety, believing your chairman's formal statement is not
posted on 1/2/12
Weir
Jelly
Cole loan
Hutton loan
Ortiz loan
McMillan away
Adam loan
Fleck loan
add Bendiksen
any more?
posted on 1/2/12
Duke
By my calculation that's your lot! I am aware that a player going out on loan often/usually gets some of his wage paid by the parent club but even so!! You'd think that the savings on 8 wages (incl our ex captain Weir, and our star player, Jelavic) plus the dribs and drabs from the rest would easily come to well over £20k per week so why could we not have diverted £5k of that to the Estonian right wing-back Ally wanted so badly?..... and that would still have left loads for a wage to Sandaza
posted on 1/2/12
Rough estimate on savings
Weir 17k
Jelly 16k
Cole loan part only 500 quid
44 grand saved on the weekly outgoings
Hutton loan part only 1k
Ortiz loan part only 3k
McMillan away 1k
Adam loan 500 quid
Fleck loan part 3k
Bendiksen 2k
posted on 1/2/12
now I made a right mess of that post
posted on 1/2/12
mckay going back to brisbane??
another 5k per week?
posted on 1/2/12
so as I said from the start of Dec until today we are very nearly 50k A WEEK better off.
2.6 million a year.
And its worth noting our wages were not that high in the first place.
posted on 1/2/12
.Duke
...so when we work all that out, and considering how little the Jaager guy was wanting, all the more alarming. And to think that Whyte could have deflected a lot of this criticism by letting Ally give £5k pw to Jaager ,say £8k pw to Sandaza, plus Sandaza's £300k fee from the £5.5 million for Jelavic, and he would still have been well ahead and we would have been, not exactly overjoyed, but reasonably happy under the circumstances
posted on 1/2/12
yes and he knows that
fn strange all round.